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‘Austin Clarke Remembered’, with a foreward by Seamus Heaney, LIMITED EDITION, 200 hardback copies,
Bridge Press 1996 (published to commemorate Austin Clarke’s centenary); together with Heaney, Seamus.,
‘The Railway Children’, Aer Rianta Heritage Programme (no date but after 1995), FIRST SEPARATE EDITION,
postcard poem (this is a variant to ‘Postscript’ issued in a set of 4 Irish Nobel Poet Laureates (Yeats, Beckett,
Shaw, Heaney) printing an alternative poem to ‘postscript’ namely ‘Railway Children (from station island)’;
together with Clarke, Austin., ‘Liberty Lane: A Ballad Play of Dublin’, with illustration by Tate Adams, LIMITED
FIRST EDITION, 500 copies, Dolmen Editions 1978 and ‘Flight to Africa’, The Dubliner Jan/Feb 1963. (4)
€ 140 - 180
‘Spirit Level’, FIRST LIMTED EDITION, 198/350,
Faber London 1996, in special binding black
cloth with paper labels and slipcase, signed by
Seamus Heaney.
€ 300 - 500
‘Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture’, FIRST USA EDITION, Farrar Strauss
& Giroux New York, in dust wrapper, signed by Seamus Heaney 1996;
together with a postcard from Seamus Heaney dated August 10 1991 to the
designer Cynthia Krupat - postcard shows ‘the bees’ from Ashmole Bestiary
c.1210 saying….’It would be worth translating Virgil’s Georgics (sic) just to see
this on a CK jacket design…but my compensations are great - I love the type in
the new ‘Seeing Things’ and the light grey ornaments , thank you for letting me
see these and forgive my tardy acknowledgement of receiving them: I have been
on a 10 days holiday in Scotland over the sea to Skye. At Culloden Battlefield in
the Malt Distilleries. Och Aye! Seamus’ . This card was used by Cynthia Krupat
in the design of crediting poetry 4 years later. Design also used on UK
edition of ‘Seeing Things’; together with Seeing Things, FIRST USA EDITION,
Farrar Strauss & Giroux New York 1991, designed by Cynthia Krupat. (3)
€ 350 - 450
‘Crediting Poetry, his speech on the occasion of his winning the Nobel
Prize for Literature’, Faber & Faber, privately printed in an edition of
500, in blue green wrappers bound by Smith Settle of Otley, signed by
Seamus Heaney and dated 12/2/96; together with ‘Crediting Poetry:
The Nobel Lecture 1995’, FIRST EDITION, Gallery press Ireland for the
Nobel Foundation December 1995, in yellow wrappers. (2)